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Several years ago, Michael Hyatt (former CEO of Thomas Nelson) responded to a rumor on his blog. In the post, Michael wrote,</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“According to the most recent rumor—which I’ve now heard twice—we [Thomas Nelson] are planning a layoff for June 19th … We are scheduled to close the transaction on June 12th, so, supposedly, this will happen the week following. I want to assure you that this is indeed a baseless rumor. There is absolutely no truth to it … If you hear this rumor, I would be grateful if you would help me short-circuit it. You can tell ’em it’s not true, and you heard it directly from me.”</span></div>
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I recall when this rumor was circulating and was saddened (and surprised) at how many Christians believed it without going straight to Michael to see if it was true or false.</div>
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Another example that’s much more national.</div>
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Late last year, I came across a website alleging <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-sex-scandal-national-enquirer/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a sex scandal involving President Obama</a>. The “story” first came out in 2008 just before the primary. It was shown to be baseless and quickly faded away. Then it resurfaced again in 2010. (The original story was removed by the source after staying online for 4 years.)</div>
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Another site purports alleged “proof” that <a href="http://christwire.org/2010/03/more-proof-obama-is-a-muslim-day-terrorist/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama is a Muslim terrorist in disguise</a>. Again, a baseless rumor.</div>
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And another alleges that <a href="http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama is gay, has sexually harassed males, and abuses drugs</a>. Again, baseless.</div>
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Note: I don’t agree with many of Obama’s policies. But these accusations are scurrilous, vicious, outrageous, and just plain slimy. There’s no good evidence to support any of them. That’s why they’ve never gained traction.</div>
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Those who use the Charismatic SCS tend to be associated
with the Charismatic/Pentecostal subculture of the Christian world. In
conversation, the Charismatic SCS appeals to personal revelation of the Bible
as the authority for interpretation and application. They often despise biblical
scholarship, paying little attention to the principles of hermeneutics and
sound exegesis, deeming them “human” and “man-made.” Statements like “the Lord
showed me” or “God revealed this to me” or “the Spirit told me” are peppered
throughout their conversations.</div>
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Those who do not use this particular SCS usually feel quite
uncomfortable with such phrases. While they may experience spiritual
illumination from the Holy Spirit, they believe it’s unbefitting to wield it as
a basis of authority. </div>
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They also find such claims to divine authority difficult to
analyze and inadequate to settle disputes. Not to mention that they believe
these declarations often convey the clear impression of “boasting in the flesh.”
In short, those who do not employ the Charismatic SCS feel that the mere appeal
to personal revelation makes the playing field unlevel in the arena of
theological discussion.</div>
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Here’s an example. Suppose that Bill and Chris are discussing a
theological issue. Chris uses the Charismatic SCS, while Bill doesn’t. After
Bill shares an interpretation of a biblical passage with Chris, Chris responds,
“The passage does not mean what you say. God showed me that it means thus and
so.”<br />
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In Bill’s mind, any attempt at biblical discourse now becomes inadequate,
for “God has shown” Chris otherwise. When Bill challenges Chris’s position using
the principles of exegesis (appealing to historical context, the original
meaning of Greek words, etc.), Chris accuses Bill of being “unspiritual,”
unable to comprehend the language of the Holy Spirit. </div>
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In Bill’s mind, Chris cannot explain or defend his position
academically. He can only appeal to personal revelation. Therefore, Bill feels
that Chris has fallen into the subjective soup of mysticism and is lost in the
sauce. </div>
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From Bill’s vantage point, there’s no common ground for
communication. The source of authority is neither equal nor mutual. While Chris
verbally affirms that Scripture is the measure of all truth and may even push
the envelope of biblical authority, in Bill’s mind, Chris’s appeal to personal
revelation demonstrates otherwise.<br />
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To Chris, Bill is not a spiritual person
because he cannot understand or accept the divine inspiration that he (Chris)
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In addition, because Bill does not use the mystical jargon that
fills Chris’s vocabulary, Chris concludes that Bill’s relationship with the
Holy Spirit is subnormal. Worse still, Chris may judge Bill to not have the
Holy Spirit at all, for if he did (he muses to himself), Bill would agree with
him.</div>
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In effect, Chris is frustrated because he fails to convince Bill
of his revelatory encounters (and he may even go so far as to accuse Bill of
having a “religious spirit”). Chris does not understand why Bill would question
his experience, because he is convinced that God speaks to him.</div>
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Bill is equally frustrated. He feels that he can’t communicate on
the same level as Chris. To Bill, Chris’s subjective appeals cloud the issue
and make the source of authority ambiguous. For Bill, Chris’s revelations by no
means secure the theological terrain. Chris’s discourse, which is cluttered
with verbal cues of mystical experiences (“God showed me”), is both
unimpressive and unconvincing to Bill. </div>
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Chris, on the other hand, is troubled with Bill’s “un-spirituality”
simply because he doesn’t share these explicit verbal signals. </div>
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In the end, the person using the Charismatic SCS ends up feeling
frustrated and hurt because of his failure to convince those who embrace a
different SCS. Likewise, those who disagree with the Charismatic SCS find
themselves up against similar frustrations. </div>
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There’s also a subset of the Charismatic SCS, employed by those
who are more familiar with the Bible and the rules of logic. It’s marked by the
use of a double standard. Such ones invoke both logic and mysticism in their
theological communications. </div>
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When they attack someone else’s interpretation of Scripture, they
appeal to the rules of Aristotelian logic. When on the offensive, they say
things like, “This interpretation is inconsistent and does not follow. It doesn’t
mesh well with other scriptural passages.” Yet, when they are on the defensive
and their conversation partner uses logic to refute their claims, they shift
the argument, saying, “I cannot explain this to you … it transcends logic … you
must have a revelation … I cannot put the truth into words … only the Holy
Spirit can show this to you,” etc. </div>
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And the stalemate persists. </div>
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From <i>Revise Us Again</i> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Viola/e/B001IGSJX0">Frank Viola, author</a></div>
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Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-39222603441098604432013-10-16T14:19:00.001-07:002013-10-16T14:19:21.444-07:00Discipleship Training<a href="http://frankviola.info/">Discipleship Training</a>Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-9124480845917964842013-10-10T07:04:00.002-07:002013-10-10T07:04:33.874-07:00Frank Viola Author NewsNew sites on Frank Viola.<br />
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<a href="http://thedeeperjourney.com/">TheDeeperJourney.com</a><span id="goog_565505705"></span><span id="goog_565505706"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a> has a 10 audio program with workbook.<br />
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Viola has written about <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankviola/onlinediscipleshipcourse/">online discipleship courses</a> before and his new course is different than typical Christian courses online.Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-86014471457806051312013-09-08T10:58:00.003-07:002013-09-08T10:58:27.653-07:00Frank Viola's New Book PageFrank Viola's book page has just been updated. <a href="http://frankviola.org/books">Click here to look at the new page</a>.<br />
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Each volume below seeks to draw you deeper into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Every book presents a fresh look at your Lord, a greater insight into the Scriptures, and a clearer understanding of God’s grand mission and eternal purpose.</div>
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My purpose in writing is to absolutely steal your heart for the Lord Jesus Christ and blow your mind to the heavenlies, bringing you into those intangible things of Christ and the deeper things of God.<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em></div>
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This page offers a description for each title along with ordering information at the best prices. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you scroll down to the very bottom, you can order my <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Entire Library</strong> at a big discount</em> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and also see <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Table of Contents</strong> link for each title.</em></div>
Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-21984365714836592402013-08-17T21:10:00.003-07:002013-08-17T21:10:56.163-07:00Podcast - Frank Viola<a href="http://ptmin.podbean.com/">Frank Viola Podcast</a>Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-68717401521192693412013-08-17T21:07:00.001-07:002013-08-17T21:07:44.675-07:00There's Nothing New Under the Sun<div class="MsoNormal">
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nothing new under the sun.</span></i></span><span class="footnoteref"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; vertical-align: baseline;"> These words were uttered by the
person whom the Bible esteems as the wisest man who ever lived (that is, before
Jesus of Nazareth came along). En. Ecclesiastes 1:9; 1 Kings 3:12; 4:30; Luke
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silent grunts whenever I hear someone make the outlandish statement that what
they have to say is brand new, completely original, and hasn’t been said
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true. And I’ve yet to meet a human being who could make such a statement
without lying through his or her teeth (whether with calculated deliberation or
in conceited ignorance). Such over-the-top rhetoric is not only profoundly
arrogant, but it has few points of contact with reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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never personally met a true spiritual or theological trailblazer. Most of the
people I know who are turning the sod on various aspects of the Christian faith
are exploring pathways that have been populated by others in the past. None of
it is brand new or completely original. As Dr. Laurence Peter once put it, “Originality
is the fine art of remembering what you hear, but forgetting where you heard
it.” Anyone who doesn’t admit to that is bluffing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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book has undoubtedly been said by someone else in some other place at some
other time or in some other era. I have often made the following statement when
invited to speak somewhere: “If you’re looking for new revelation, you’ve got
the wrong guy.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="footnoteref"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; vertical-align: baseline;"> I have no new revelation. In fact, I have
never met a person who had new revelation. Nor do I possess any “heavy revy” to
dish out (that’s cute shorthand for “deep and heavy revelation from God.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Solomon said, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” In fact, all of what we have
in the New Testament is found in the Old Testament—in types, images,
allegories, and shadows. There is one exception, however. “The mystery” that
Paul of Tarsus so passionately spoke about in his letters. That was a genuine
case of “new revelation.” Unquestionably so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="footnoteref"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; vertical-align: baseline;"> To put a finer point on it, there’s only
one revelation, and there’s only one Revelator. The revelation is Jesus Christ.
The Revelator is the Holy Spirit. And we stand on the shoulders of those who
have gone before us. It is only by God’s marvelous grace that we can (perhaps)
see further than they did.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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let me add that I don’t believe that there are any elite Christians. And I
certainly don’t believe that there are any elite Christian workers or
ministers. I believe that the simplest saint who has met the Lord Jesus Christ
is as holy, as valued, and as cherished in the sight of God as the apostle
Paul, Martin Luther, John Wesley, Watchman Nee, C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham or any
other name that you wish to insert into that sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-82920728136588233592013-08-12T07:47:00.001-07:002013-08-12T07:47:16.404-07:005 Questions for Francis Chan<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankviola/francischan/">Frank Viola asks Francis Chan 5 incisive questions</a>.Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-41328806151755151022013-08-04T06:35:00.002-07:002013-08-04T06:35:43.754-07:00The Experience of the Body of Christ<div class="MsoNormal">
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Every genuine Christian is a member of the Body of Christ. If Christ dwells in
you, then you are <i>membered </i>to His Body. But there is something that I
call the <i>experience</i> of the Body of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the experience of Christian community. By “community,” I do not have in mind a
commune or communal living. I’m rather speaking of a group of Christians who
see themselves as genuine family, who are intensely involved with one another’s
lives, and who are pursuing their Lord together all throughout the week. I’m
speaking of a face-to-face, shared-life community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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life.” Watchman Nee called it “church life.” I often refer to it as the <i>experience</i>
of the Body of Christ, where a believer encounters in living color the
interdependence, the mutual participation, the diverse-but-unified giftings,
the oneness, and the shared life of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ on this
earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-84625526344642085482013-07-29T08:22:00.001-07:002013-10-10T07:00:26.017-07:00Author Frank Viola on Good Reads<a href="http://frankviola.org/books">Frank Viola's books</a><br />
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The Zimmerman trial and the tragedy that surrounds it has captured the world’s attention. Including that of the body of Christ.</div>
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Media coverage has heightened passions on both ends. Conversations about race, law, injustice, prejudice, guns, etc. are all being argued and inflamed.</div>
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In this article, we don’t want to weigh in on the public debate. Instead, our passion is to encourage God’s people everywhere to transcend the debate that the world is holding on its own terms by seeing ethnicity through the eyes of our Lord. There is only one race, the human race, which is comprised of different ethnic groups (Acts 17:26).</div>
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We want you, dear Christian, to take your cue from the New Testament believers, for they can teach us a great deal about this subject.</div>
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<a href="http://frankviola.org/2013/07/18/zimmermantrial/">Click here to read the rest of the article</a>.</div>
Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-32820264021707978772013-07-15T08:50:00.002-07:002013-07-15T10:41:10.012-07:00God's Eternal Purpose<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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what the church is and could be but disagree about the form a local church
should take (i.e. traditional, denominational church vs. house or organic
church)?</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Absolutely. In fact, Christians from a
wide variety of church forms and expressions have endorsed the book: Ed Stetzer
(Baptist), Alan Hirsh and Dan Kimball (Missional), Shane Claiborne (New
Monastic), Myles Munroe and James Goll (Charismatic), Brian McLaren (Emergent),
Greg Boyd (traditional </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">evangelical church form), Leonard Sweet
(Methodist, and who knows what else!), Michael Spencer (New Covenant-Reformation),
Ralph Neighbor (Cell Church) are just some of them. In addition, I‘ve received
a fair share of enthusiastic mail from Anglicans on the one hand and Reformed
folks on the other, both of whom have resonated strongly with the message of
the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">All told, From Eternity to Here is a book
written for all of God‘s people irrespective of which church forms and
structures they might embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-3457069923973667292013-07-06T13:17:00.001-07:002013-07-06T13:18:14.581-07:00Author Frank Viola on N.T. Wright and F.F. Bruce<a href="http://frankviola.net/FrankViola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Frank Viola " border="0" height="245" src="http://frankviola.net/FrankViola.jpg" title="Frank Viola" width="320" /></a><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">My favorite New Testament scholar of the 20</span><sup style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">century was the British scholar F.F. Bruce. Bruce was a bright and shining light” in 20</span><sup style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">century evangelicalism. He was prolific, churning out high quality work year after year. He had the rare ability to write academic books as well as popular (accessible) books. Bruce’s specialty was Jesus and Paul</span><br />
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F.F. Bruce also understood the importance of chronology in New Testament studies. Consequently, he published a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OB1H34?tag=reimagchurch-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0801021839&adid=10VNMVFPC886V15ZJ9N1&" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">translation of the New Testament that put all of Paul’s letters in chronological order</a>. (Yes – cough — F.F. Bruce was a major inspiration for me. Hence, I credit him in my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0768422361?tag=reimagchurch-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0768422361&adid=1CEDHT9P3J0NYFA7FHW6&" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Untold Story of the New Testament Church</a>.)</div>
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In addition, Bruce was a powerful apologist, substantiating the historicity of the Gospels in the face of 20<sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup> century liberalism. To top it off, F.F. Bruce was a capable theologian as well as a New Testament exegete (a rare combination).</div>
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Enter N.T. Wright. Another British evangelical scholar.</div>
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N.T. Wright is the 21<sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">st</sup> century equivalent to F.F. Bruce. What Bruce did for evangelicalism in the modern world, Wright is doing for evangelicalism in the postmodern world.<span id="more-7272" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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Like F.F. Bruce, N.T. Wright is remarkably prolific, he has the rare ability to write academically as well as popularly, he specializes in Jesus and Paul, and he is an effective and compelling apologist. (Wright has brilliantly excoriated the arguments of liberal scholars who traffic in historical Jesus studies.)</div>
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Like Bruce, Wright is both a theologian and an exegete, and he wrote his own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062064916?tag=reimagchurch-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0801021839&adid=10VNMVFPC886V15ZJ9N1&" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">translation of the New Testament</a> (though not in chronological sequence).</div>
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To my mind, N.T. Wright is the new F.F. Bruce."</div>
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Source: <a href="http://frankviola.org/2012/01/23/ntwright/">Frank Viola interviews N.T. Wright</a></div>
Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-11866517188502209002013-06-29T06:19:00.000-07:002013-06-29T06:19:02.855-07:00Jon ZensSome new posts about Jon Zens have just been published.<br />
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<a href="http://frankviola.info/2013/06/29/jonzens/">Meet Jon Zens</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-zens/12/446/310" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens on LinkedIn</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/jonzens" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens on Twitter</a></div>
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<a href="http://frankviola.me/2013/06/18/jonzens/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens Biography</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.frankviola.co/jonzensfrankviola/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens and Frank Viola interview</a></div>
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<a href="http://undermuchgrace.blogspot.com/2011/05/jon-zens-talks-about-his-new-book-no.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens: No Will of My Own</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.paganchristianity.org/zensresponds1.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens: Pagan Christianity</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2621892.Jon_Zens" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens on Good Reads</a></div>
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<a href="http://undermuchgrace.blogspot.com/2011/05/jon-zens-talks-about-his-new-book-no.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens Interview</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.grantedministries.org/four-tragic-shifts-in-the-visible-church-jon-zens/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Four Tragic Shifts by Jon Zens</a></div>
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<a href="http://sojo.net/biography/jon-zens" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #617c3d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Zens: The Sojourners</a></div>
Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-12211799117023975412013-06-23T06:34:00.001-07:002013-06-23T06:34:08.072-07:00How Frank Viola Became an Author<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="http://frankviola.tv/">Frank Viola</a> became a published author in 2005 with the book <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Untold Story of the New Testament Church</em>.</div>
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In the 1980s, Viola was a public school teacher. He would write tracts in the style of Last Days Ministry on various topics he was learning about. Influenced by Watchman Nee and T. Austin-Sparks, the tracts would contain higher teaching on many different subjects.</div>
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In those days, Viola told us he was using an advance type writer and then he’d get the tracts printed at a local print shop.</div>
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In the mid-90s, Frank was asked to host a bulletin board discussion group. This was the precursor to the Internet. It was way before Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.</div>
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An article by Frank Viola would be written once every two weeks on the subject of ecclesiology. At that time, Frank had been exploring a simpler way of being church beginning in 1988. Each of Viola’s articles would reflect that way of being church.</div>
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For example, in one week, Frank would write an article on the purpose of the church meeting. Another would be on church leadership. Another would be on the Lord’s supper. Another on the meeting location of the church.</div>
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People would respond and ask questions on the Bulletin Board.</div>
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Even in those days, Viola was a provocateur.</div>
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When the series was finished, many of the readers wanted copies of the entire series of essays. So Frank stapled them together and mailed them to those who asked.</div>
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Then, Frank says a friend of his recommended putting the essays into a book. When he checked into this, he discovered that you had to print 1,000 copies of a book to get a decent rate.</div>
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Frank’s feeling was, “If I printed a book containing these essays, I may be able to get rid of 100, but then I’d have 900 in my attack collecting dust.”</div>
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Given his reservations, Viola figured out how to typeset the essays into book form and he had Devern Fromke’s publisher print 1,000 copies of the book. So it was his first self published work. Looking back on it, he sees it as immature, rough, unseasoned, and something he can’t stand by today given the nuances that weren’t present.</div>
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At around the same time, he discovered the Internet and his friend Hal Miller put together a website for him.</div>
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He gave away the first 1,000 copies in a few month.</div>
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Then, he reprinted the book, and on the first day of its released, it had 400 orders.</div>
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Eventually, he couldn’t keep paying for the costs of printing and mailing, so he charged a fee for the book.</div>
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Frank tells us that a few people criticized him for making the book for sale, but ironically, none of them weren’t willing to pay for the cost of printing and mailing.</div>
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In 2005, Destiny Image approached Frank to publish his first officially published book. Frank agreed and so <a href="http://frankviola.org/untold" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Untold Story of the New Testament Church</a> was published. This was the first published book by author Frank Viola and it still sells well till this day.</div>
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A year later George Barna found Frank’s self published book, <a href="http://www.paganchristianity.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pagan Christianity</a>, loved it and wanted to get it into a wider audience. So Tyndale House offered a deal for Frank to revise the book with the help of George Barna and release the revised version.</div>
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Frank prayed about the offer and after feeling it was the Lord’s will, he agreed to have the book published by Tyndale after Viola and Barna revised it.</div>
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“I will not quarrel with you about my opinions; only see that your heart is right toward God, that you know and love the Lord Jesus Christ; that you love your neighbor, and walk as your Master walked, and I desire no more. I am sick of opinions; am weary to bear them; my soul loathes this frosty food. Give me solid and substantial religion; give me a humble, gentle lover of God and man; a man full of mercy and good faith, without partiality and without hypocrisy; a man laying himself out in the work of faith, the patience of hope, the labor of love. Let my soul be with these Christians wheresoever they are, and whatsoever opinion they are of.”</div>
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Frank Violahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403911694495228680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960763903662548526.post-828158180774305912013-06-13T05:52:00.001-07:002013-06-13T05:52:46.345-07:00The High Call of God by Frank Viola<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0in .25in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> God has called you to be a participant, not a spectator! May you heed this upward call—and be forever
delivered from your slated occupation of “layman,” kneeling before an altar,
sitting under a pulpit, and having your hand in a purse! May you rise to your
God-called, blood-bought, Spirit-endowed right to be a <i>functioning</i> member of a <i>functioning</i>
Body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Regrettably, few have had the courage to respond to this higher
call. Admittedly, the deck is stacked against those of us who’ve left the
religious system for God’s higher purpose. Despite it’s horrible flaws, the
institutional church continues to succeed on a certain set of terms. It
succeeds because it provides a much more convenient and predictable way for
people to get their needs met. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Let’s face it. It’s much easier to have someone else worry about
the problem of creating an environment where we can worship God together. It’s
much easier to just plug in rather than having to be responsible for direction
yourself. It’s much easier to make use of an in-place “children’s ministry”
than to figure one out ourselves. And it’s much easier to passively listen to a
sermon that someone trained in oratory has prepared than it is to handle the
Scriptures ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> At bottom, leaving the institutional church to gather around the
Lord Jesus Christ (alone) means being responsible. It means having no one to
blame but yourself when things go wrong. It means testing your ideals in terms
of real relationships rather than escaping into non-floatable theories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> It also means inciting the wrath of the institutional church.
Some benighted pastors will invariably see the end of the gravy train in you
and your kind. The discovery that you don’t need their “professional” help is
quite threatening to them. So expect the authority-mongers to intimidate you
with tall tales about the horrible consequences that follow those who throw off
their “covering.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Yet for those of you who can’t abide the bondage of the
institutional church system, leaving is not an option. It constitutes an honor,
a right response to God’s revealed will, and an act of spiritual survival!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Only then will the future course of church history begin to map
to its first 200 years—when there was a church <i>without</i> clergy or laity—a church completely in the hands of God’s
people! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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